A review of the fossil Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of seven new species and history of the family

EE Perkovsky, M Olmi, P Mueller, A Guglielmino… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The fossil Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) are reviewed. Keys to the
genera and species of this family are presented. Five new species of Embolemus are …

The First Reconstruction of the Head Anatomy of a Cretaceous Insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the Early Evolution of Ants

A Richter, B Boudinot, S Yamamoto… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The fossil record allows a unique glimpse into the evolutionary history of organisms living on
Earth today. We discovered a specimen of the stem group ant† Gerontoformica gracilis …

Synopsis of the fossil flat wasps Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of three new genera and 10 new species

WD Colombo, EE Perkovsky, C Waichert… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The subfamily Epyrinae is the most common in the bethylid fossil record. Its geological
history ranges from the Eocene to the Pleistocene, and it is the only subfamily that has no …

Integrative taxonomy solves taxonomic impasses: a case study from Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)

WD Colombo, CM Tribull, C Waichert… - Systematic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We apply integrative taxonomy to solve a historical taxonomic impasse in a flat wasp group
(Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). The phylogeny of Epyrinae is inferred with parsimony analyses …

The Skeletomuscular System of the Mesosoma of Formica rufa Workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

L Aibekova, BE Boudinot… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The mesosoma is the power core of the ant, containing critical structural and muscular
elements for the movement of the head, legs, and metasoma. It has been hypothesized that …

Discovery of the first apterous pincer wasp from amber, with description of a new tribe, genus and species of Apodryininae (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae).

M Olmi, A Guglielmino, DV Vasilenko, EE Perkovsky - Zootaxa, 2022 - europepmc.org
Rovnodryinus khomychi new genus and new species is described from Upper Eocene
Rovno amber (Ukraine). It is the first apterous pincer wasp found in amber. This new taxon is …

First Bocchus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) from Upper Eocene Rovno amber: B. schmalhauseni sp. nov.

EE Perkovsky, M Olmi, DV Vasilenko, L Capradossi… - Zootaxa, 2020 - europepmc.org
A new species of pincer wasps, Bocchus schmalhauseni sp. nov.(Dryinidae) is described
from Rovno amber (Ukraine). The amber piece was collected in the Vladimirets District in the …

A review of the Palaeoanteoninae (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), with description of the first species from mid-Cretaceous Kachin (Myanmar) amber and comments on its …

EE Perkovsky, M Olmi, P Müller, L Capradossi… - Cretaceous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The fossil Palaeonteoninae (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) are reviewed. Keys to the
species of this subfamily are presented. Palaeoanteon cenomanianum sp. nov., is described …

The first sclerodermine flat wasp (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from the upper Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine

WD Colombo, EE Perkovsky… - … : An Australasian Journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
A new extinct bethylid wasp attributable to the subfamily Scleroderminae is described from
upper Eocene amber found at the Voronki mine in the Vladimirets District of the …

[PDF][PDF] A new species of Bocchus from upper Eocene Rovno amber (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)

M Olmi, B Eggs, L Capradossi… - Journal of …, 2022 - jhr.pensoft.net
A new fossil species of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from upper Eocene Rovno
amber (Ukraine) is described: Bocchus rex sp. nov. It is compared with two other species of …